[Gllug] HELP Network problem

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:37:25PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:16:37PM +0100, Greater wrote:
> >  
> >>OK, are you using udev rules to rename interfaces?  Something is messing
> >>with your interface names and udev is the only remaining culprit.
> >>    
> >
> >Which reminds me, there have problems with unstable udev and interfaces
> >for a while now, mostly because of some hacky patches put in by the
> >Ubuntu developers and very inadvisably adopted by Debian.  Try turning
> >off networking, removing the modules for the cards and then reloading
> >them.
> >
> >  
> how can i turn off networking ?

/etc/init.d/networking stop

Debian will try to undo whatever networking has been set up.  Given that
your networking is messed up, you may have to clean up afterwards by
explicitly doing

	ip link set dev DEVICE down

where DEVICE is eth0 etc.

> 
> Also it could be udev as I have done an update today and I think udev 
> was included, how can I check whether udev is doing something odd.

There may be something in the logs, though this is something else that
the patches have mangled.  You could do /etc/init.d/udev stop and then
run udev as a foreground process, to see if that gives you any more
information at the console.

But it's probably wisest to go have a look at /etc/udev/ and see what
has been configured.


-- 
Bruce

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards, apart from
ostriches if you punch them hard enough.
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